Vuvu grunts and follows back to the Titan. Vuvu is surlier than usual today
Vuvu grunts and follows back to the Titan. Vuvu is surlier than usual today
Hemmings walks along with the others. He doesn't have much skill tracking, so just keeps to himself, noticing the black mood that Vuvu is in.
The man at arms follows the group with the two donkeys.
Locke, Arsil and Tyrel all have horses right?
Vuvu and Hemmings are on foot.
Taking their time, the group makes it successfully back to the sight of the fight. Now there, what do you do? Loot more thoroughly, start tracking a group of goblins, or something else?
I assume the others loot. Vuvu tracks
Take10 for 18
yes arsil has a horse...
You continue to loot the area finding many dogslicers, torn armor, and other such equipment in horrible conditions.
There are a few more things found that are of good quality.
alright we are here so lets get to tracking
Tyrel will search around for a trail that they can use, or any tracks they can follow.
Tyrel you find 6 different groups...
1. a dozen goblins
2. two dozen goblins with some wolves
3. a dozen goblins with a large humanoid with them
4. a half dozen hobgoblins with wolves
5. a half dozen goblins
6. a dozen goblins, their tracks seem to have some liquid in them that glows green.
Cool!
I am assuming Tyrel will tell you what he finds, so which group do you want to hunt down first?
I say 5 then 1
Start with the strongest group then work our way to the easiest.
(so 2-6-3-4-1-5)
"If I must I will be the tie breaker, though I don't care where we start." Locke drones, as he finishes looking for more loot.
Can someone direct me to the loot so I can record it
"I agree with Arsil. Let's tackle the strongest group while we are still at our strongest."
Done then. Lead on says arsil as she helps with tracking
Hemmings follows the rest quietly, staying well behind the more martial members of the group.
Tyrel another survival check.
Everyone Perception checks. Feel free to do any other checks you may want to do.
Following the tracks you come up to two massive rocks that look like they have fallen onto each other leaving a tunnel between them. There is a small hill before you get to the rocks so the front you cannot see yet. You are 120 feet away.
Hemmings can you go check it out?
Grunts
Looks
Grunts
Frowns at hemming
Hemmings keeps low below the level of the lip of the hill, then lies down and peers over the top to look at the tunnel formed by the rock.
Assuming they don't see other threats, Hemmings unshoulders his pack, draws his dagger, and creeps off to take a circuitous route to the tunnel mouth.
Arsil will give some time to Hemmings to get into position and then stepping down of her horse she will move forward herself
Locke dismounts and takes Arsil's horse over to some brush, with the man at arms and mules. Out of sight.
Locke comes back with mace and shield ready for a fight.
Between Arsil and Vuvu the group stops before stumbling upon any goblins. You stay unobserved.
Once we are close Vuvu downs his made armor extract
Hemmings creeps back to the group to report.
"It's a fair goblin village in there. Mayhap 'bout 30 or so all told. Also a fair number o' wolves and wargs. They do 'ave pickets out, but they ain't real good at scoutin'. Some type o' ruin is also inside the tunnel an' the gobbies are bendin' knees to some type o'shrine or statue right up near the front o' the tunnel."
"Not sure how to slow some of 'em down, but 30 mad goblins plus canines sounds like a tall order all at once. Anyway ta distract er disable a good number all at once?"
Locke looks at Vuvu with one eyebrow raised, whispering, "Well Mr. Alchemist you got any plans or special ingrediants to help us with this one?"
Not per se. I suppose we could search the area for some poisonous mushrooms and the like, I might be able to distill them down into a paste or something that the thief could slip into whatever revolting stuff they are eating. It would not be as effective as actual poison but I suspect it could make some of them sick…
He says his voice trailing off as he thinks
survival to find the mushrooms
"I think we can start taking down the pickets one at a time, if you like, but I'll need muscle backup in case I draw more than a handful or the alarm gets raised," Hemmings offers helpfully.
not sure all the goblin in the camp are fighter type. In fact if we avoid them we can just on the group at the cave. Wipe them out and is the cave in order to bottle neck the goblin form the village if they come
Locke asks Vuvu, "How long do you think that will take?"
Between 2 and 8 hours depending on how well I do. But since we are not under a time crunch it might be worthwhile.
Hum arsil ponders
"Well, Hemmings feel free to scout out and around if you wish, I am going to go back to the mounts, perhaps find a spring... Vuvu go find those mushrooms, is there anything we should do to help prepare it?" Locke asks quietly and begins to back away.
upon hearing Locke arsil will speak up to no one in particularThe benefit of the doubt, might as well see it. she follows locke to the horses
Vuvu grunts and gathers the mushrooms
He returns after 3 hours.
Vuvu's survival check to scrounge up mushrooms... Knowledge Nature, Survival with aid from k: Nature. Beating the DC of 12 by 10 thus only 1d4 hours.
Vuvu arrives back and takes out his portable lab from the wagon and sets to work
He grunts often as he works but after hours he finishes with a nasty concoction
Now with two concoctions actually, you have a small vial of condensed liquid that came off of the mushrooms and the paste.
Well we have this bit of nasty that thief there could put into the goblins food, and this liquid perhaps we can slip into something as well. Nasty stuff that I do not want to take back into town, but for these critters it could work out well.
great then. Lets get into action
It is late afternoon now. A few goblins had wandered towards the group, though between Arsil and Tyrel they were short work. Locke got some target practice in too. :)
Now moving forward with the group and Hemmings with them, since he had plenty of time to slowly sneak. Back up to the same spot as before the group waits for Hemmings to get into the camp...
Hemmings stealth check for dusk coming on and only moving 5 feet per round. None of the quasi alert goblin notice you, and Hemmings makes sure he is no where near any of the canines. There are a few comuninal pots. You are able to dose two of them.
stealth check
stealth check
As you sneak away one of the goblins must have saw movement and heads towards you Hemmings, what do you do? You are over 60 feet away from your group, and 15 feet from vegeation for total cover. There are many different things around you such as crude furniture, skins, bones, and other miscellaneous things.
Much as he wanted to run for the cover of the vegetation, Hemmings knew from experience that the eye was automatically attracted to movement. Running now meant the two alert goblins would certainly catch him.
Instead he hunkered down behind a few of the bits of broken furniture and tried to pull an old skin over himself, blending in as much as possible. He kept his dagger firmly in hand, just in case.
The goblins came over to where you are Hemmings though when not seeing any movement and looking around a bit. Went on their way.
"Whew, that was a close one!" Hemmings thinks to himself. Peeking out to ensure the coast is clear, he slides out form under the skins, and attempts to return to the rest of the group.
Taking your time, you stealthily make it back to your group.
Great so now we just way for them to get sick and finish off the rest?
"Should we go track down another group and come back tomorrow, it should take somewhere between the night to a day for them to be fully affected. Right Vuvu?" Locke says and questions.
Vuvu thinks for a moment and says
As long as we are back by tomorrow, otherwise they will start to get better, remember goblins have fast metabolisms.
Vuvu stretches and reaches down to pet Ash, then realizes he is not there.
lets go then. We have plenty to do says arsil with a smile